Apparatus for retailing nails



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No. 235,753. Patented Dec. 21, 1880.

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HENRY O. DRAPER AND THOMAS O. BOWYER, OF OSWEGO, KANSAS.

APPARATUS FOR RETAILING NAILS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,753, dated December21, 1880. Application filed October 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY CLAY DRAPER and THOMAS OSBORNE BowYER, ofOswego, in the county of Labette and State of Kansas, have invented anew and Improved Apparatus for Retailing Nails, 850.; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming nartf this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation with one ofthe Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

The object of our invention is to provide a means for convenientlyselling nails, nuts, rivets, washers, bolts, staples, coffee, beans,spices, and other small articles sold by hardware merchants and grocersby the pound, which shall facilitate the handling of these articles ingetting them out and weighing them by retail; and it consists in a setof uprights,

, each madein one piece, with abroad base and a backward inclination,and having on their front edges notches or open bearings, combined witha keg having trunnions which rest in said bearings, and a cross-bar atthe tops of the uprights, which serves the double function of connectingand holding the uprights against lateral displacement, and also forms arack for horseshoes and other analogous articles.

In the drawings, A represents the uprights, which are arranged in groupsof two or more, or may be arranged in longer and continuous series.base, and are rigidly connected to a baseboard, B, or the floor. In formthey taper upwardly and incline backwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, and areprovided on their front edges with jogs or notches a, to form openbearings for the trunnionsupports of the kegs, so that the latter may bereadily lifted out bodily, if d ,ired.

G are the kegs or receptacles,which are preferably made of heavysheet-iron, in cylindrical form with wooden bottoms. These kegs areprovided each with trunnions or cars b just above their centers ofgravity, which trunnions rest in the notches of the inclined up- Theseuprights are made deep at the rights, so as to permit the kegs to beeasily tilted to discharge a portion of their contents into the hopperof the scales.

At the tops of the uprights are arranged one or more bars or rods, D,which serve to con.- nect and brace the uprights, and also afford a rackto sustain horseshoes and other analogous right, so that the saidreceptacles may be tilted to permit the more convenient insertion of theshovel in putting coal into the stove.

In defining our invention more clearly, we would state that we areawarethat barrels, milkcans, and even nail-kegs have been hung upontrunnions so as to tilt, and we therefore do not claim, broadly, thecombination of a supportingframe and a trunnioned receptacle. We areaware, furthermore, of the Patent No. 205,681, to Cotter, Russell, andWarrell, for a washingmachine, in which a receptacle for the clothes isprovided with trunnions which are supported in bearings in complex endframes made of several bars braced by special crossbars below thetrunnioued receptacle, and in which a special supplemental frame isattached in the rear to the end frames for the single definite purposeof sustaining a trough. Our invention differs from this in that the endframes in our caseare in the nature of uprights made in a single pieceand of a peculiar shape, while our cross-bar connects the tops of theuprights themselves to perform the double function of a rack and a braceto the uprights, instead of simplyforming a part of a supplementalframe, as shown in said washing-machine.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- Thecombination of the uprights A A, made each in a single piece, with abroad base, an a rack for horseshoes and like articles, as open bearingin its front edge, and arearward shown and described.

inclination, the keg having trunnions adapted HENRY CLAY DEAPER to restin said bearin s and a cross-bar con- 5 necting directly the td ps ofthe uprights, for THOMAS OSBORNE BOWYER' the double purpose, first, ofholding the same WVitnesses: in proper position and bracing them againstJNO. B. DRAPER, lateral displacement, and, secondly, of forming JOHN M.MAGIE.

